all the schools have the same aim
Page 109 all the schools have the same aim: to achieve a way of living known in the original Greek as you demonia, often translated as happiness, joy, or human flourishing. This meant living well in every sense: thriving, relishing life, being a good person. They also agree that the best path to eudemonia was anorexia, which might be rendered as unperturbability or freedom from anxiety. Aturraxia means equilibrium: the art of maintaining an even kill, so that you neither exalt when things go well or plunged into the spare when they go hurry. To attain it a state of control over your emotions, so that you are not battered and dragged about by them like a bone fought over by a pack of dogs New line.
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · How to Live by Sarah Bakewell
In the book
We are all after it — Pascal said the search for happiness is the motive behind every human action, even those of the man about to hang himself, and William James thought the same, calling it "the secret motive of all that men do". But the ancient Greeks gave the target a better name than ours: eudaimonia, human flourishing — thriving, relishing life, being a good person — reached by way of an even keel, so that you neither soar when things go well nor crash when they go badly. And it is not the same as pleasure. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)